This recipe for Hainanese Chicken Rice features aromatic, toasted coconut rice with silky, tender poached chicken served alongside chili garlic sauce and a warm, clear chicken broth. What is Hainanese ...

If you were go to to Hainan island in southern China and ask for Hainan chicken rice, cooks there would probably roll their eyes. Hainan chicken rice isn't called that there, and it's not served ...

The gingery, toasted sesame oil-based dressing contains all the nostalgic flavours of Hainanese chicken rice from my childhood ... An earlier version of this recipe listed the incorrect amount ...

Elsy MektrakarnNguyen's family has its roots in Hainan, China, just as this chicken and rice dish does. Hainanese migrants took the recipe with them when they migrated across Southeast Asia.